The only booter that will work out of the box will be the 1.5 booter since 
it uses the console routines to access the device that is being booted. 
Once 'boot' is loaded and started it has to figure out how to get the 
kernel off the boot device and I don't think there is anything other than 
TMSCP support in boot (I don't see an 'st.c' file which is what I would 
expect if SCSI boot was supported).

--Chuck

At 12:38 PM 12/19/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I was playing around with the Cipher M995 tape deck last night, and
>ran off tapes with boots from 1.3.2 up through 1.5.  Alas, every
>time I invoked a b mkaxxx, it would not do anything but dump registers
>all over the console.  I don't think it got as far as reading the
>tape, even.
>
>1.  Is it possible to boot VS3100 class machines from 9 track tape
>     (i.e., is there anything strange in the prom that is a DECism that
>      would cause register dumps on non-DEC tape decks?)?
>
>2.  Is there a particular incantation to do this (I tried b, b/1, b/2,
>     b/3, etc, all to no avail.... and it should boot off the first file)?
>
>Any suggestions or insights are appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Bob